Economic Civil War: Declaration of Mutual Total Boycott of Conservative and Liberal Businesses

I’m old enough to remember when liberals found out that the then-owner of Domino’s Pizza was a pro-life Catholic activist who donated some of the profits from Domino’s to Catholic and anti-abortion charities. The reaction was sudden and furious: in an instant there were calls for a nationwide boycott of Domino’s, and of anyone who accepted ads from Domino’s; picket lines sprung up outside pizza shops across the country; and in general things looked grim for Domino’s.

Until, that is, about a month later, when the mob’s attention was drawn elsewhere, and the whole boycott thing evaporated.

What made the flash flood of outrage so mystifying is that the owner of Domino’s had never hidden his beliefs; nothing changed to precipitate the boycott except that the Left for the first time learned about an existing fact.

The exact same process is now happening with Chick-fil-A: it’s not that the owners suddenly came out of the conservative closet. In reality, they’ve been public Christians and openly conservative for their entire business careers. All that happened is that their views entered onto the liberal radar by chance one day, and the word quickly went out on the Alinsky grapevine: This is the next target we will freeze, personalize and polarize.

I’m quite sure that the Chick-fil-A boycott will fade away soon enough, as such things always do, but it raises a larger question: Why become outraged spasmodically like this, in fits and starts? Why not simply made a permanent list of every business’s political preferences, and conduct one’s economic choices accordingly?

Since conservatives as well have on occasion chosen to avoid giving money to famously leftist businesses, we can stop this bipolar boycott binge behavior and just declare a permanent cleavage in America’s shopping habits to match our political preferences. THIS IS WAR!

But the problem is that each side only ever gets obsessed with the other side’s “villains,” and there’s no one-stop bipartisan handy list of whom you should boycott and whom you should patronize, according to your politics.

Time to rectify that!

I hereby declare permanent mutual Economic Civil War between the left and the right. You don’t want your money going to fund ideologies you hate, do you? Of course not!

I’ll get the ball rolling with a few entries on both sides, but please feel free to make suggestions and additions in the comments section, and I’ll be updating the lists to make them more comprehensive throughout the day:

EVIL CONSERVATIVE COMPANIES

If you are liberal, you must forever boycott and shun the following businesses, all of which are known or suspected of either being controlled by conservatives or donating profits to conservative causes, now or in the past:

EVIL LIBERAL COMPANIES

If you are conservative, you must forever boycott and shun the following businesses, all of which are known or suspected of either being controlled by liberals or donating profits to liberal causes, now or in the past:

Update I: One difficulty in compiling such a comprehensive list is that some companies have changed political orientations over time, and at various phases in history there has been unhappiness in both political camps with certain companies. Disney, for example, was reviled as a “conservative company” for decades, especially in the ’50s and ’60s, since Walt Disney himself was conservative and since Disney cartoons and films and parks promoted all-American values. But that was then; now, Disney is often accused of being too politically correct and of owning media outlets which overtly skew left; and at the same time, liberals still bash Disney for being unashamedly capitalistic. In short: Ya just can’t win.

To avoid this problem, I’m mostly seeking the names of companies which are either currently facing an official or unofficial boycott, or which faced one in the past and have not noticeably changed their politics since then.

Update II: This list is specifically about the political leanings of companies, and not about “bad business practices.” Therefore, excluded from the list will be boycotts called due to poor conditions in overseas factories (Adidas, Nike) except in those cases where there is a claimed or apparent close connection between the bad business practices and the companies’ declared ideology.

Update III: The more extreme anti-capitalist activists essentially hate every corporation, for the mere reason of being a for-profit capitalistic enterprise. Therefore, also excluded from this list will be boycotts declared simply because a company is successful. (Though it could be argued that many of the well-known boycotts originated for just this reason: Resentment of success and opposition to profit comes first, and then later some flimsy justification for a boycott is ginned up as an excuse to protest.)

Update IV: An interesting thought experiment: What would life be like in both LiberalLand and ConservativeLand if all members of each ideology strictly hewed to their boycotts — especially the industry-wide boycotts? Liberals would not only have to live without certain kinds of fast food, various hotels, paper products and fertilizer-grown plants, but also without oil and gas. Conservatives would not only have to forego Google, Facebook and Arby’s, but also films and newspapers. Two different Americas indeed!

Update V: Both GoodGuide and BargainBabe feature an interactive infographic slider which allows you see the political leanings of 153 major consumer brands. Maybe not each one is boycott-worthy, but if you’re trying to decide between Shiseido and Liz Claiborne at the cosmetics counter, it might be useful to know that Liz Claiborne is run by a bunch of commies while Shiseido are fascist reactionaries!

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Hollywood is a collection of about 10 movie production houses – all very wealthy. All identical in style, some bigger and some smaller but not so far apart in capabilities. Their Producers fund the industry. They fund movies, directors, actors, and most support.
All are far far left, pro-abortion, heavy pro-gay, heavy pro-liberal AND Anti-conservative, anti-christian, anti-republican.
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Just follow the political donations to see the real action. They have so much money that Obama had not one but TWO separate Beverly Hills Fund Raising Dinners ($46,000/plate?) in one day.

GE, parent company of NBC and MSNBC, could go on the list of Evil Liberal Companies, especially since Obama crony Jeff Immelt is the CEO. Disney, which is notoriously PC and owns ABC, is another candidate. The baked goods company Van De Kamp alienated some conservatives when its president, John Van De Kamp, ran for governor of California some years ago as a far-left Democrat.

In Monsanto’s case, the grievance is the [cue dark music] GM crop technology. It has nothing to do with conservatives having anything to do with the company or its giving, unless there’s a connection I’m not aware of.

I suspect that many of the above listed companies are like that; the grievance has to do with some whacko conspiracy theory rather than some real political connection.

I realize that there is more than a bit of sarcasm in your post, but I make custom T-shirts with my computer [for my own use, I do not sell them, ever] to make Leftists’ heads explode. I made one especially because right next door to our Republican HQ is a new small business owned by one of our local Leftist Moonbats who is a big Obamacare supporter, and across the street is Democrat HQ in a space owned by the business next door to it. Said Democrat owned business provides the Democrats rent free space year round.

The T-shirt I made says “Boycott Democrat Owned Businesses” with an Obama symbol with a slashed circle over it.

The reaction from Democrats reaches head explosion level. They do not think it is fair that they should be punished for the policies of the political party they support. In 2008 their HQ window was plastered [from the inside] with every sticker and poster accusing Bush and the Republicans of every crime and act of moral turpitude one can conceive of. And all sorts of boycott calls.

We are really two different countries now, and the differences are irreconcilable. Conservative business owners are victimized by the government policies in Leftist states like California, New York, and Illinois. Why should not Leftists suffer financially when they are outnumbered in an area?

As far as Hollywood is concerned, given the campaigning and funding support of various entertainers; adding individuals to each list would be appropriate.

Mheh. No surprise. Your town used to be the seat of the KKK in the early part of the last century. A cross was burned on my former high schools front lawn in the 30′s.

Our host said: “Why not simply made a permanent list of every business’s political preferences, and conduct one’s economic choices accordingly?” Well, I try. Go to few movies anymore. Check off HollyWeird. Most businesses I patronize are pretty middle of the road.

I would love to see Libruls follow their own advice and not use – gas, oil, natural gas (fracking), go to Wal-Mart, etc. But that ain’t gonna happen.

It was a target for a day or so until it came out that the tea has nothing to do with Arizona. BTW we are always in the zone here and have been since at least the days of Barry Goldwater. We have been boycotted as a state on more than one occasion. From being late to have an MLK holiday to SB1070 we are always ready for the next boycott.

A few years ago (early 2000′s I think) I read that Target Stores had a muslim checker girl up in the Dearbornistan area, that refused to touch any product containing pork to the extent that she would call another worker over to handle a pepperoni pizza. And apparently Target was ok with this since it showed religious sensitivity. I’ve been boycotting them ever since.

Not sure if they’ve come around since then.

More recently I’ve been boycotting Olive Garden/Red Lobster for caving into the FLOTUS healthy menu for kids strong arming.

I don’t generally advocate boycotts, but I do choose whom to do business with based on my perceptions of what’s god or bad for America.

Here’s another one, and I was bummed too because they had recently upgraded their stores and business model, and I had decided to return to shopping there. But alas, no. The two dads on the Father’s Day ads sealed the deal.

Any utility company that owns, builds, or services nuclear power plants should be avoided by progressives.

Exelon, headquartered in Chicago and the biggest owner of nukes in the US, is a lefty organization where Bill Ayers’ father was CEO so it should banned by conservatives. Their current executives made real big contributions to Obama in 2008 too.

Evil Conservative Companies vs Evil Liberal Companies is more like Progressive Republican Companies vs Progressive Democrat Companies. Both Progressive parties like crony capitalism. Many of the companies listed here fall into that category. Some are purely communist, e.g., Ben and Jerry’s, but many will go to whichever Progressive party the money flows from (the latter is a known preposition). Just look at the bulk of Wall Street donations in 2008 vs 2012. 2008 was Obama, 2012 is Romney.

My best suggestion is to vote against anyone who seems to support crony capitalism or, in addition, rise up and stop this crap.

>>>>>What made the flash flood of outrage so mystifying is that the owner of Domino’s had never hidden his beliefs; nothing changed to precipitate the boycott except that the Left for the first time learned about an existing fact.

It’s like the old joke about a sailor who was beatimng up a Jew because he blamed him for crucifying Jesus. When told it happened a long time ago, he said that that may be so, but he had just heard about it today.

I, for one, am not particularly worried about liberal “boycotts”. They usually fight for their great cause not to the death, but to the first inconvenience that happens to occur. The minute they’re hungry and there is no other reasonable eating place around, they “just this time” buy from Domino’s or Chick-Fil-A or whatever the “evil company” in question is this week, and that’s the end of the boycott.

Skeptic,
I disagree that there is no concern. When it is high profile, there is a lot at stake, because if the company gets hammered, many other companies will cave/capitulate without even trying. It’s like Wisconsin and Scott Walker. The Unions knew they needed to unseat him, because if they didn’t it would embolden other Governors.

The converse is also true. If Walker had been defeated, many other legislators over the coming years wouldn’t even consider taking on the public sector unions.

I’m tired of the LGBTQ agenda. What used to be a request for compassion has turned into a demand for capitulation, with defamation and slander thrown in. We need to win this.

I don’t have a link of an actual boycott going down, but wasn’t there a liberal boycott against Target at some point, over their CEO’s donating to a Republican (pro-traditional marriage to boot) candidate back in 2009? Also something about Citizens United, if I recall correctly.

The outrage is due to liberalism’s need to have someone to hate. Without that, their whole coalition falls apart. Fits and starts, because liberals, like most other children, tend to have short attention spans.

“All that happened is that their views entered onto the liberal radar by chance one day, and the word quickly went out on the Alinsky grapevine”

This reminds me of what happened with fracking. Been going on since the ’40s and there have been over a million (literally) wells that have done this since then, but the moment that a lazy EPA administrator finds out about it 60 years later it’s an uproar.

I’m confused about Heinz ketchup. I thought after Senator Heinz died they were taken over by loony leftists like Teresa.

As for Progressive companies, how about the big one that goes by its name, Progressive Insurance. I’ve been boycotting them forever due to how much Peter Lewis supports lefty causes and his ties with Soros.

What’s is going on is the gradual disintegration of the American society – by design. The fundamental goal of Cultural Marxism is the destruction of the common purpose and cohesion that bind a nation together and by sowing discord between races, religions, businesses, ethnicities the Marxist takeover is easily attainable.
The recent “business war” started by two “minority” individual, one is the Communist Van Jones (web:) and other leftist groups (Soros’ Moveon, homosexual interests peddlers etc.)

In no other developed country (Except in 1930′s Germany’s Jewish boycotts) would be legally possible to declare war by a group of individuals on legitimate businesses without judicial retribution against the boycott organizers.
Similar attempt would provoke general outrage everywhere on earth.

The fact that business CEO-s are unable or unwilling to stand up to bullying and rather succumb to threats instead of expunging this form of blackmail from the business world implies that the internal disintegration of the US is progressing a pace and it’s irreversible.

I get you think this is all just crazy, and we should all drop it.. the problem with that is two fold.

The left started it decades ago.. with the right never fully responding aside from a few isolated instances that had no serious support from the conservative base..

The left will not stop, and while our reaction is a backlash against theirs.. Even if we quit today, the left would continue it’s jihad to silence and punish any opposing points of view. They do see this as a war, and do seek not only to inflict pain, but utterly destroy people who disagree with them. Palin didn’t run for anything did she?.. but the left’s public campaign to drive her into bankruptcy and complete silence continues uninterrupted since 08.. they barely took a breath before going after her, her husband and her minor children..

The left is a hate group like the klan, existing to ruin people, and they would be doing worse if they could get away with it, and I’m with millions of others in seeing them for the thugs they are. If they stopped trying to rule us, we’d leave them alone.. but they would still seek to bully the other side, no matter whate we do.. so we may as well fight this fight on our feet, doing as much damage to them as possible.

We’ll win, because the progressives have always been fringe..

The point is, we refuse to give them free reign to damage good people till they are driven out of power.

As you know both evil ideology, the Brown and the Red socialism are originated in Europe. One murdered millions for their ethnicity, the other for their social class/origins.
For educational purposes I include quotations from Europeans who were once victims of both:

“Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism
June 3rd, 2008, Prague, Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic”

-* whereas the Communist ideology is directly responsible for crimes against humanity,
-*whereas consciousness of the crimes against humanity committed by the Communist regimes throughout the continent must inform all European minds to the same extent as the Nazi regimes crimes did,
-*whereas there are substantial similarities between Nazism and Communism in terms of their horrific and appalling character and their crimes against humanity,
-*whereas many of the perpetrators committing crimes in the name of Communism have not yet been brought to justice and their victims have not yet been compensated, (end of quotes)

Because of the sad facts presented in the last paragraph (Marxists are revered today) there are attempts made in earnest in the West, – but not in the East,- to whitewash and to revitalize the Bolshevik terror under more benign sounding monikers within the concept of Cultural Marxism.
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Historian Paul Johnson claims in “Intellectuals” that Marxism is anti-semitism extended to a class. Recall that Marx’s father converted to Christianity when Marx was young to get around anti-semitic laws, i.e. he sold his soul for money. Marx was a vicious self-hater.

The 800 pound gorilla is the amount of business a company does with the government and how much it is susceptible to government regulation. Suppose I own a rental car company and don’t like the bailout of GM and Chrysler so I buy my fleet from Ford or the imports. Want to think about how many federal employees are renting a car on a given day? Throw in sympathetic state and local goverments and all it takes is a whisper to seriously damage a rental car company. In my state the only thing that keeps rental car companies in business between September and May is State employee rentals; the owner of the rental car franchise really doesn’t want to get on the governor’s bad side. The government can do major damage to an airline, a hotel chain, even a city; you will NOT have a government training session, “retreat,” regional meeting, etc. in a right to work state in a Democrat administration. You will NOT have a meeting of state or local government employees in a non-union hotel in a Democrat administration. Many hotels in right to work states where a union could never organize a workforce are union for just this reason.

You might notice that the only time OSHA or its state analogs ever “calls” on a union company is in the rare event of a labor dispute; they exist to torture non-union companies, likewise EEOC ain’t messing with a Democrat governor unless there is a real opportunity for a shakedown with the government’s complicity; “Oh my goodness, we’ve been discriminating for all these years, let’s give them a few million dollars of other people’s money.” You may rest assure that the only reason Boeing came to terms was somebody whispered in management’s ear that they weren’t going to be getting any orders and the FAA might just start finding their airplanes to be unsafe. Every one of the government’s alphabet soup of regulatory agencies works the same way and their state analogs do it too. So, consumer boycotts really aren’t much of an issue but if those “consumers” can get the government to “boycott” a company, the company can easily die.

I’ve hated McDonalds with a passion since they strong-armed the state of Israel (including use of the department of Commerce) into giving rabbinical supervision to those of those stores that are Kosher. God punishes measure-for-measure, however; they were sued by some Indians for beef content of the French Fries and as part of the settlement they had to give about a million dollars to a couple of Jewish organizations I admire for a Kosher aducation program – although no religious Jew would ever have made that mistake.

One problem with boycotting the guys who withdrew from Rush, such as Carbonite, is that they continue to advertise on other Conservative shows. However, I will no longer give ProFlowers any of my business. We may scare people form signing on the Conservative shows in the first place.

When I was a kid, the Modern Orthodox community boycotted Pepsi/Frito-Lay because they were among the first to sell to the USSR, and they were boycotting Israel. (Today I buy Pepssi here in Israel.)

Ikea were the first peop[le I know to feature an ad with a “gay” couple, so they will not get my business.

For the longest time I would not buy anything made in China, to the point of buying a coat made in Indonesia. Unfortunately, this is no longer possible; so I think I’m reversing it. Still will not buy anything made in Viet Nam.

When I was young, we wouldn’t buy anything made in Germany. Now I’m embarassed to say I sometimes fly Luftwaffe – I mean Lufthansa – to and from Israel. They even have a synagogue in the airport in Frankfurt-am-Main.

A company to give business to, by the way, are the makers of Leica lenses. It appears they acted heroically duting the holocuast. I would like more information on the participation of Zeiss, however.

EDIT: I totally forgot about AARP and their support for Obamacare. I didn’t even know about their opposition to Voter ID in MN until I looked for the Obamacare link. There appears to be a website dedicated to this theme. http://www.ditchaarp.com/